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12 unusual facts about Fribourg


Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz

They lived first at the Hotel Royal, before Alfonso and his younger brother Gonzalo were sent to the Collège Saint-Jean in Fribourg.

Anson Dorrance

He attributes his love of soccer to his years living in Kenya and finally, he gained his education from the boarding school, Villa St. Jean International School, in Fribourg, Switzerland from which he graduated in 1969.

Besançon Hugues

Following the invasion of Geneva by Savoy forces in September 1525, fled to Fribourg, from which he continued the rebellion which proves successful the following year.

Écublens

Écublens, Fribourg, a municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Hans Pochon

From 1931 he worked at the Musee d'histoire naturelle in Fribourg and restructured its entomological collections.

Hendecourt-lès-Ransart

The chateau and its farm were sold in 1878 to the Diesbach de Belleroche family from Fribourg Switzerland, who still own it today.

Lausanne–Fribourg–Bern Railway

The aim of the LFB was to connect the French-speaking part of western Switzerland with the German-speaking part of central Switzerland with a line from Lausanne to Bern via Oron and Fribourg.

Le Châtelard

Le Châtelard, Fribourg, a commune in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Nicolas Ernault de Rignac Des Bruslys

He was affected to the Army of the Rhine on 26 frimaire an VIII (17 December 1799), where he distinguished himself at Fribourg and Biberach an der Riß.

Schmitten

Schmitten, Fribourg, a municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

See District

See District, Fribourg, a district in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Swiss Informatics Society

SI celebrated a history of 30 years on 25 June 2013 at the Fachhochschule Westschweiz in Fribourg.


1995 in archaeology

American installation artist Mark Dion first transforms archaeological investigation into an art exhibit with his History Trash Dig at Fribourg, Switzerland.

Ambre Hammond

She has performed with the SBS Youth Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Fribourg Youth Orchestra and the Orchestra of the City in London.

Anna de Diesbach

Anne Marie Lucie Hedwige de Diesbach-Belleroche (b. September 15, 1844 in Fribourg Switzerland - d. November 10, 1929 in Beaufort-en-Santerre, France) was a French rosarian.

Autigny

Autigny, Switzerland, a commune in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Carol Rich

Carol Rich (born Anne-Lyse Caille, 15 February 1962, Villorsonnens, Fribourg) is a Swiss singer, best known for her participation in the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest.

Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland

Eleven other cantonal branches have been founded, predominantly in German-speaking Switzerland: Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Fribourg, Glarus, Lucerne, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Valais, and Zürich.

ContiGroup Companies

Formed in 1813, ContiGroup Companies, Inc (CGC) was originally founded by Simon Fribourg in Arlon, Belgium, as a grain-trading firm.

Fétigny

Fétigny, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Flon

Le Flon, a municipality in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland

Franz Jakob Clemens

After spending some time in an educational institutional at Metz, he entered, at the age of sixteen, the Jesuit College of Fribourg, Switzerland, attended the Gymnasium at Koblenz, and thence passed to the University of Bonn.

Glane

Glâne District, a district in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Glâne

Glâne District, a districts in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland

Gruyere

Gruyère District, a district of the Canton of Fribourg, in Switzerland

Gruyères

The area of the municipality comprises a section of the Saane valley and of the Fribourg alps.

Guilder

Berne and Solothurn followed in the 1480s, Fribourg in 1509 and Zürich in 1510, and other towns in the 17th century, resulting in a fragmented system of local currencies in the early modern Switzerland.

Jacques Pugin

In 1985, at the triennial of Fribourg in Switzerland, Polaroid makes available a 50 x 60 cm camera with which Jacques creates the series The Polaroids, a series which now forms part of the eponymous collection.

Lac Noir

Schwarzsee or Lac Noir, a lake in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Mauro Jöhri

He was ordained a priest in 1972, and continued his studies in Fribourg, Tübingen and Lucerne, where he earned a doctorate with a dissertation on the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar.

Mehreen Jabbar

It won the FIPRESCI PRIZE from the International Federation of Film Critics and received Honourable Mention by the 13th Annual Satyajit Ray Awards at the London Film Festival, 2008 as well as the Audience award at the Fribourg International Film Festival.

Patriarch Daniel of Romania

1980 – 1988 – Lector at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Geneva and associate professor in Geneva and Fribourg, Switzerland;

Payerne

The IGP protected Saucisson Vaudois IGP and the partly AOC protected Boutefas sausage are made from pigs that foraged for acorns in Vaud or Fribourg woods and drank local water.

Philip Myers

He is currently a faculty member at Mannes College The New School for Music, New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in New York City, and University of Music Lausanne (HEMU), in Fribourg, Switzerland.

Pierre Rossier

Rossier maintained a photographic studio in Fribourg until at least 1876 and he also had a studio in Einsiedeln.

In Switzerland he established photographic studios in Fribourg and Einsiedeln, and he also produced images elsewhere in the country.

Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

The academy was one of several Thomist foundations in places such as Bologna, Fribourg (Switzerland), Paris and Lowden.

Swiss people

Between April 1876 and May 1877 a contingent of Swiss immigrants comprising 119 families came to the area of Magellanes (Punta Arenas and Fresh Water), mostly peasants from the canton of Fribourg.